A Tribute to Zan!

This is a proud tribute to my Father-in-law, Zan, born and raised in that great land northward. It is, in the end, an advertisement, but it is entertaining nonetheless, eh? Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg

Cute Elin and Friend

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Happy Birthday April!

This weekend we celebrated April's birthday... she's had 33 of them! It was a small celebration, but fun. We had our own "date night" out, then we had a little party with the kids. How about this chocolate applesauce cake- I learned of this from April, and now I'd have to say it's my favorite. But really, I did make it for April. Really.

Singing "Happy Birthday to You"... we sounded interesting.

Blowing out candles... Nate was upset he couldn't blow them out all himself, but he happily partook of the good stuff.

April's presents... no, they're not earings. They are tea holders. April had a tea holder for years (a gift from my sister), and she loved it, but I accidently allowed it to take a ride down the garbage disposal. It wasn't pretty. So, happy birthday April!

Unrelated to the birthday celebrations, I baked this apple pie in prep for the Thanksgiving celebrations. I have to practice since I haven't done very many pies. Looks tasty, eh? Pumpkin pie is next, never done that one.

School Pics

One of Nate's teachers graduated in photography. Thus our school pics are not your typical pics :) I thought these were fun. Not sure which is my favorite yet - they are all "Nate."

Engineering Feats and Amazing Artistic Displays

Nate has discovered the world of Legos. The first picture is a Halloween house that shoots out the candy from the spinning windmill. The antenna on top detects the approaching children.

Here is a car that has the ability to "be safe" going around corners.

This is a motorcycle.

This is just a funny picture. Elin is mad that I told her not to touch Nate's rocks. It was the first time I have gotten "that" look from Elin. I think Jase and I are in trouble.

This is a cave by Elin - The cave is in the green marks. You can almost see it.

More art by Elin. She likes marker "colwors."

This is an apple picker with two trikes attached to it.

Here is Nate and his his mountain range. They all have unique faces.

Smile!

Nate loves to put on a big smile for the camera. Here are some of the cupcakes we made for school snack tomorrow. He was really proud of them.

We were trying to take a picture of Elin and Jason was pointing to his cheeks behind me. Here are the various versions. I can't honestly decide which one is the cutest!

Candy and Sharks and Dinos Oh My!

Nate was so excited to go trick or treating. We didn't get to go to the trunk or treat on Wed due to sickness. Since this was the only candy acquiring outing we were going on, the minutes until the clock struck four was a truly agonizing experience - sheer torture made just for the poor great white. I should contact the CIA.

Elin wasn't really sure what was going on. I think she thought had really thought the whole world had gone nuts. Adults were handing out candy! She picked up on "Twick o' Tweet" and a "Tank you" rather quickly.






Pumpkin carving - we had two opposites. Nate loved digging in there and Elin wouldn't even get near an open pumpkin - "Yucky -NO." She opted for markers.



We even got to go Karate in our costume. Who knew sharks could do karate.

Family Fun Night!

Nate made it to his 100 marbles on his listening jar. He and Jase went to a movie and then we all met up for fun and then tacos! Here is some of the fun.